Bridges and tunnels in New York Harbor

According to the city of New York, there are 2,027 bridges in New York City (approx. 60 smaller bridges in Central Park alone). This is primarily about the bridges and tunnels in the New York harbor area as crossings of the main waters in and around New York / Manhattan. The longest bridge is the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to the south between Staten Island and Brooklyn across the entrance to the Atlantic .

The bridges over the East River to Manhattan on its northeast bank are from north to south: Throgs Neck Bridge, Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the railroad bridge from Randalls Wards or Park Ave, Third Ave Bridge, Willis Ave Bridge, Triborough Bridge , Queensboro Bridge , Williamsburg Bridge , Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge .

On the west bank there is the Bear Mountain Bridge over the Hudson in the very north , followed by the Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge ( Tappan Zee Bridge for short with the I-87 / I-287 - New York State Thruway , also Dewey Thruway) and directly north of the center the George Washington Bridge .

In addition to these main bridges to / from Manhattan, there are many normal bridges as well as 25 movable bridges throughout New York: two draw-in bridges, seven swing bridges, four lifting bridges and twelve drawbridges. Since bridges and tunnels are always about the connection of two areas, it makes sense not to limit yourself to the New York metropolitan area, but also to consider the various partners, mostly local authorities, who were involved in the construction.

The term New York Harbor is above all a rough geographical description of the area on the border between the two states of New York and New Jersey , because also the so-called facilities of the joint port authority of the two US neighboring states, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) , by far do not include all port facilities and regulating issues relating to road and rail traffic to and from New York.

The Narrows Bridge

bridges

East River Bridges

Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge

Whitestone Bridge towards the Bronx

Connection to I-95 and the Garden State Parkway (green, toll)

(Order upstream)

Surname	Completion	length	Remarks
Brooklyn Bridge	1883	1825.00 m	Oldest suspension bridge
Manhattan Bridge	1909	2089.00 m	7 lanes and 4 tracks, pedestrian and bicycle lanes ( IND Sixth Avenue Line , BMT Broadway Line )
Williamsburg Bridge	1903	2227.48 m	Combined road and rail bridge ( BMT Nassau Street Line / BMT Jamaica Line )
Queensboro Bridge	1909	1135.00 m	Also called 59 Street Bridge (Bridge of 59th Street) known
Roosevelt Island Bridge	1955	876.91 m	East Channel only. Lift bridge (30 m) the rear bridge in the picture
Triborough Bridge	1936	1569.72 m	for Interstate 278
Hell Gate Bridge	1916	310.00 m	Railway bridge (with further segments 5181.60 m total access and exit structures) the rear (red) bridge in the picture
Francis Buono Bridge	1966	1280.16 m	Connects Rikers Island with Queens, hence Rikers Island Bridge
Bronx-Whitestone Bridge	1939	1149.10 m	Interstate 678
Throgs Neck Bridge	1961	886.97 m	Interstate 295

Harlem River

The Harlem River is an estuary 13 kilometers long and 120 meters wide with a tidal range between the Hudson River and the East River. It is made up of the actual Harlem River in the east and the Harlem River Ship Canal and Spuyten Duyvil Creek in the north. It is spanned by a total of 15 bridges. They connect Manhattan Island to the American mainland with Ward's Island , the Bronx and Marble Hill .

Surname	Completion	length	Remarks
Ward's Island Bridge	1951	285.6	Only pedestrians open to shipping in the background the Hell Gate Bridge
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge (formerly: Harlem Lift Bridge, as part of the Triborogh Bridge)	1936	1569.72	Harlem Lift Bridge as a separate part of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge
Willis Avenue Bridge	1901	979 m	In the picture the old swing bridge under 3rd Ave. Bridge seen through it, behind it the Harlem River Lift Bridge and behind it on the right the Hell Gate Bridge. In the meantime a new swing bridge has been installed.
Third Avenue Bridge	1898	?
Park Avenue Bridge	1956	?	Metro-North Railroad railway bridge
Madison Avenue Bridge	1910	?
145th Street Bridge	1905	?
Macombs Dam Bridge	1895	774
High bridge	1848	440	Formerly: Aqueduct Bridge (see also: Croton Aqueduct ); pedestrians and cyclists only
Alexander Hamilton Bridge	1963	724	Interstate 95 U.S. Route 1 In the picture the second bridge
Washington Bridge	1888	723.9	In the picture the front bridge
University Heights Bridge	1908	82
Broadway Bridge	1962	?	Also Harlem Ship Canal Bridge; US 9 IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line (trains)
Henry Hudson Bridge	1936	673	NY 9A Henry Hudson Parkway
Spuyten Duyvil Bridge	1900	?	Railway swing bridge, Amtrak Empire Connection

Hudson bridges

George Washington Br. Between New York City and Jersey City. A photo from the Historic American Engineering Record (circa 1985).

Surname	completion	length	Note
Above Manhattan
Bear Mountain Bridge	1924	687 m
Tappan Zee Bridge	1955	4881 m	(during the Dewey Thruway)
At the height of Manhattan
George Washington Bridge	1931	1451 m	Used by 320,000 vehicles every day. Originally built with only one carriageway level; In 1962 a second level was hung below. 4 lanes per direction or 3 lanes per direction in the basement + pedestrians etc.
Below Manhattan
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge over the Narrows Strait	1964	2270 m	connects Staten Island u. Brooklyn

View from Bayonne to Newark

New Jersey

On the west bank of the Hudson is the

Vincent R. Casciano Memorial Bridge (from 1956; previously only briefly Newark Bay Bridge). It connects Newark and Bayonne in four lanes . The main field with the largest span measures 390 meters.

Staten Island – New Jersey

Run to and from New Jersey

Newtown Creek

Surname	Bj.	Remark.
Kosciuszko Bridge *	1939	Along I-278
Pulaski Bridge	1954	McGuinness Blvd.
JJ Byrne Memorial Bridge	1987	old Greenpoint Avenue Bridge
Grand Street Bridge
Metropolitan Avenue Bridge

The * old Kosciuszko Bridge (1939) between the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn was deliberately blown up for demolition (Oct. 2017). Its forerunner was the Meeker Avenue Bridge, a swing bridge. A new bridge at this point should be completed in three years.